Many parents have a desire to raise their children to be bilingual or multilingual (that is, speaking more than one language fluently). It seems that everyone has an opinion on the “right” way to ...

Narrative development in bilingual children is a complex interplay between cognitive, linguistic, and cultural factors. As these children acquire and use two or more languages, their storytelling ...

Co-authored with Sirada Rochanavibhata, M.A. In a world that is becoming increasingly globalized and diverse, the ability to speak more than one language may be a desirable trait, especially because ...

Before the 1950s, prevailing research indicated that bilingualism created a disadvantage for children. Since then, many studies have found that not only were those concerns unfounded but that ...

(OR Images/DigitalVision/Getty Images) A new study shows that mothers and their children display synchronized neural activity ...

Mothers and children who play together show synchronized brain activity, and that neural coupling holds steady even when the mother switches to her second language. A study of 15 bilingual families in ...

Diagnosed with autism and delayed language development, five-year-old Jose lives with his bilingual English-Spanish family in the UK. In addition to all the important decisions that a family with an ...

Amanda Owen Van Horne sits on the floor while a child mixes up cake batter in a play kitchen. While at play, an intensive language therapy program is also underway for preschool-aged children with ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. New hyperscanning research reveals that when bilingual mothers and children play together, their brains align just as strongly in a second language as in their native tongue, ...

Children and adolescents who speak more than one language may reach adulthood with more grey matter, according to a new study. In a paper published in Brain Structure and Function, an international ...

In the United States, more than 12 million children hear a minority language at home from birth. More than two-thirds hear English as well, and they reach school age with varying levels of proficiency ...

A new study in U.S.-born children from Spanish-speaking families finds that minority language exposure does not threaten the acquisition of English by children in the U.S. and that there is no ...